 Douglass
North, Founder
Douglass North is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in
Economic Sciences. He joined the faculty of Washington University in
1983
as the Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Liberty in the Department of
Economics, and served as director of the Center for Political Economy
from
1984 to 1990. In 1992, he became the first economic historian every to
win one of the economics profession's most prestigious honors, the John
R. Commons Award, which was established by the International Honors
Society
in Economics in 1965. His current research includes property rights,
transaction
costs, and economic organization in history as well as economic
development
in developing countries.
 Itai
Sened, Director
A typical product of the Rochester Ph.D. program of the late 1980's,
Itai Sened is currently a full professor in the Political Science Department at Washington University in
St. Louis, and the Director of CNISS. His main
interests
are theory of institutions, game theory and applied mathematical
modeling.
His first book, The Political Institution of Property Rights,
was
published by Cambridge University Press in 1997. His second book, Political
Bargaining: Theory, Practice and Process, with Gideon Dorn, was
published
in 2001 by Sage Publications. He published numerous articles in the top refereed journals in
Political Science including, The
American Journal of Political Science, The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics and The
Journal of Theoretical Politics and different edited volumes. He is
the co-editor, with Jack Knight, of Explaining Social Institutions
from The University of Michigan Press, 1995, now in a paperback
edition.
Alana Bame, Administrative
Assistant
Alana Bame joined CNISS in March of 2001. Alana handles all administrative
tasks related to the Center, plans conferences, workshops, and events, and assists
with the administration of programs such as the CNISS Certificate Program in Institutional
Social Science and the Hirsch Undergraduate Program. Her prior work experience includes conference planning activities,
editing, writing, and research for non-profit organizations and
associations in Washington, DC.
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2009-10 CNISS Advisory Council
In
2009, we inaugurated our Advisory Council which aims to integrate
non-academic viewpoints into the activities of CNISS and help to build
our CNISS community.
Mr. Morris C. Brown, Chair
Attorney Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mr. Matt Fleischman
Currently attending NYU School of Law
Ms. Lisa Sharkey Gleicher
SVP Director of Creative Development, Harper Collins Publishers, Inc.
Ms. Avigail Goldgraber
Independent Consultant
Mr. Gary Hirsch
Chairman, Elk Homes LLC
Mr. Brian Hirsch
Attorney/Associate at Greenberg Traurig LLP
Mr. Eric Nelson
Attorney/Chief Investment Strategist and Portfolio Manager
Mr. James Schwartz
Group Executive Vice President, Mast Industries Inc.
Mr. Itai Sened
Director of CNISS and Professor of Political Science, Washington University
Mr. Steven David Shalowitz
Account Director, Young & Rubicam Inc.
Mr. Glenn Shapiro
Partner, Balyasny Asset Management
Mr. Scott Simowitz
Attorney/Shareholder, Moskowitz Mandell Et Al
Mr. Murray Weidenbaum
Chair, CNISS Academic Board and Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor, Washington University
Ms. Mike Worley
Executive Director of Development for Regional Projects, Washington University
2009-10 CNISS Academic Board
Murray
Weidenbaum,
Chair of the Academic Board and Mallinckrodt Distinguished Univeristy Professor
Nicholas Argyres
, Olin Business School
Steven Fazzari,
Department of Economics
Sebastian Galiani, Department of Economics
Clarissa Hayward,
Department of Political Science
Carolyn Lesorogol,
GWB School of Social Work
Itai
Sened, CNISS
Director; Department of Political Science
Andy
Sobel, Department
of Political Science
Gautam Yadama,
GWB School of Social Work
CNISS Members
John Drobak,
School of Law; Department of Economics; Chairman of the Board of
Directors
Lee
Benham, Department of Economics
Margaret
Louise Brown, Department of Anthropology
Wayne
Fields, Co-Director of American Culture Studies; Department of
English
Sukkoo
Kim, Department of Economics
Jack
Knight,
Department of Political Science
Gary
Miller,
CNISS Minor Advisor; Department of Political Science
Jack Nickerson,
Olin School of Business
Douglass North,
Nobel Prize Laureate; CNISS Founder; Department of Economics
Shanta Pandey,
GWB School of Social Work
Paul Rothstein,
Department of Economics; Associate Director of Weidenbaum Center
Norman
Schofield, Director of Center in Political Economy; Department of
Economics
Andy
Sobel, Department
of Political Science
James
Wertsch, Department of Education
Gautam Yadama,
GWB School of Social Work
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